Spring cleaning has always been a ritual we've all been told to do. But we want to know, do you actually set aside time for spring cleaning?

In the age of vacuums, space heaters, and Swiffers, it's not nearly as necessary to wait until spring to get rid of winter filth as it used to be. But Slate points out that there's still a psychological aspect to the spring cleaning that makes it worth doing:

To my mind, spring cleaning is as much a ritual as a chore, an opportunity for reflection and re-evaluation. Even the cleanest among us often find ourselves in a state of triage, barely keeping the house together as life pushes and pulls us in a thousand directions; spring cleaning requires that we take time to take stock of not only what needs to be done—what did I miss last year? Which new systems would I like to put in place? Which benighted crevices have I never once visited?—but also of our philosophical approach to cleaning in general.